RE: sshd.log /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable.

Corinna Vinschen wrote on Monday, February 18, 2008 12:12 PM:: > + echo "${LOCALSTATEDIR}/empty is existant but not a directory." Perhaps: + echo "${LOCALSTATEDIR}/empty exists but is not a directory." would avoid a typo (it's "existEnt"), and sound less like a Google translation ;-) Phil

Re: sshd.log /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable.

On Feb 17 19:41, Brian Dessent wrote: > Brian Dessent wrote: > > > I don't know why running ssh-host-config didn't work, you'd probably > > have to debug that a little more to find out. > > It just occured that perhaps /var/empty did not exist the first time > ssh-host-config was run and thus the

Re: sshd.log /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable.

Brian Dessent wrote: > I don't know why running ssh-host-config didn't work, you'd probably > have to debug that a little more to find out. It just occured that perhaps /var/empty did not exist the first time ssh-host-config was run and thus the chown failed, and it was only created when the sshd

Re: sshd.log /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable.

David Christensen wrote: > /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable. > > 11. Change owner of /var/empty: > > 20080217-144416 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var > $ chown root empty/ > chown: invalid user: `root' > > 12. STFW. root is not a valid user name. Make an educated guess

sshd.log /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable.

uld not be started. The service did not report an error. More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 3534. 8. Look at /var/log/sshd.log: /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable. 9. Adjust mode of /var/empty and attempt to start sshd: 20080217-144322 [EMAIL PROTE